ABSTRACT
The sign of the camalote was firmly established, in the English literature, in 1949 by Fainsinger’s report 1 from Johannesburg. He described the typical findings in a 54-year-old man. Camalotes are waterlilies whose floating fronds are brought to mind by the floating membranes of a collapsed hydatid endocyst as seen on a chest radiograph (Figure 1). Chest X-ray with clarifying diagram showing a hydatid cyst with the sign of the camalote. Modified from <italic>El Torax Quirvrgico</italic> by Armand Ugon<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12_2"> <sup>2</sup> </xref> (1938) https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003076568/34c29fd5-5662-4e8f-b58c-badd7fa5d724/content/fig12_1_B.jpg"/>
